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Lifting in sentence

269 examples of Lifting in a sentence

The thing that sticks with me the most is that he was apologizing to me for crying in front of me, and at the same time, he was also giving me props, lifting me up, for not crying.
So what you saw him do is he was lifting himself up and standing on two legs, and putting his arms out.
You wake up, and without lifting your head from the earth on your sleeping bag, you can see for 70 miles.
We sent a petition to the Shura Council in favor of lifting the ban on Saudi women, and there were, like, 3,500 citizens who believed in that and they signed that petition.
Imagine being able to make ceramics at room temperature by simply dipping something into a liquid, lifting it out of the liquid, and having evaporation force the molecules in the liquid together, so that they jigsaw together in the same way as this crystallization works.
Over time, we would hope it would become a new platform for economic transactions, lifting millions of people out of poverty.
And then this kind of twist, with this balcony and the skirt, kind of like a ballerina lifting her skirt to let you into the foyer.
But when it comes to lifting people up who are starving and need us today, those are distractions.
That is SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, lifting six tons of supplies to the International Space Station. 10 years ago, SpaceX had not launched anything, or fired a rocket to anywhere.
Not holding someone down isn't the same as lifting them up.
We train them, on the range and in specific contexts, over and over and over until lifting their weapon and engaging their target is so engrained into muscle memory that it can be performed without even thinking, even under the most stressful conditions you can imagine.
At that time, in the second half of the last century, science was curing disease and lifting us to the moon, and the sexual revolution was breaking down barriers, and the Civil Rights Movement began its march toward the fulfillment of our nation's promise.
What felt brave to me was that other kind of harvest and transplant, the soul marrow transplant, getting emotionally naked with another human being, putting aside pride and defensiveness, lifting the layers and sharing with each other our vulnerable souls.
To get rid of an odd habit he had of involuntarily lifting his shoulder, he practiced his speeches in front of a mirror, and he suspended a sword from the ceiling so that if he raised his shoulder, it would hurt.
And I stopped lifting weights.
They're lifting up our city while lifting up their lives.
She next supervises her ladies who are unpinning her yurt and lifting it onto its custom wagon.
And a project that was realized in Austria, the Hooper Bank, which again used this idea of connecting typology, the traditional buildings, and morphology, or the relationship of the development of land as an idea, into a complex, which is a piece of a city where we can see part of it is literally just this augmenting, this movement of the land that's a very simple idea of just lifting it up and occupying it, and other parts are much more energetic and intense.
Here you see them lifting a gallon filled with water.
These HASELs here are lifting a weight that's about 200 times heavier than their own weight.
You're lifting weights.
You've got to keep lifting him up, because you don't want to live with a mouse.
And he can bring new characters into the scene, just by lifting the Siftables off the table that have that character shown on them.
So, kites are more than a thousand years old, and the Chinese used them for military applications, and even for lifting men.
By lifting this museum, making it float above the ground, we can free up a lot of landscape and space underneath the building.
The cost of lifting the pencil and marking a "V" is higher than the possible benefit of the decision, so that's why we get this effect."
And as we think about how we construct aid for Pakistan, while we need to strengthen the judiciary, build greater stability, we also need to think about lifting those leaders who can be role models for the rest of the world.
She starts her day with lifting weights.
In this case what we're doing is we're taking the orchestra floor, lifting it up, spinning it, changing the rake, taking it back to flat floor, changing the rake again.
These countries are lifting more than the economy, and it will be very interesting to follow this over the year, as I would like you to be able to do with all the publicly funded data.
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